Half way through our training at Yalincak and METU (1965),
the Turkey 9 group dispersed, and everybody spent a week in a Turkish
village. Dennis and Marcie Pearson, Bill Mercer and I traveled together.
We stayed several days in Bolaman, on the Black Sea Coast East of Fatsa in
the Province of Samsun.

Marcie Pearson with the Bolaman muhtar and his two
daughters.

The Bolaman muhtar, his wife and daughters, with Marcie
Pearson and Bill Mercer.

Dennie Pearson and Bill Mercer, on the road with the
muhtar and two other Turkish men from the village.

Dennie and Marcie Pearson on horseback, as we rode up into
the hills along the Black Sea Coast

Some Bolaman children

Ottoman-era house in Bolaman atop the ruins of what we were
told was a Genoese castle.

The village mayor and another man from Bolaman. We hiked up
into the hills behind Bolaman with them one afternoon.

After we had stayed in Bolaman for two days, we rode horses
up into the mountains, and we visited the homes of two men who had large
hazlenut orchards. They are on the right and left in this picture. The man
in the center of the picture lived down in Bolaman and accompanied us on our
trip up into the mountains.

Hazlenuts that had been picked and spread out in the sun to
dry.

Two houses up in the hills above Bolaman.

The Bolaman village mayor, with whom we stayed.

Flea market in Fatsa

The kaymakam from Fatsa, who took us to his home for lunch the
day we arrived